READING how large charities are using aggressive methods to raise funds is worrying.

May I reassure all those kind readers who help the Ear Trust that such actions are never used, We rely on your kind donations of old jewellery, watches, fountain pens and propelling pencils, brooches etc, which you do not now use.

Old maps and charts which are gathering dust or lace tablecloths all help to raise necessary funds when I take them to auction.

No charges are asked and a cheque is made out to the Ear Trust.

This buys items such as musical instruments which help during learning to hear after a cochlear implant.

Wonderful work. Helping a deaf child to join the hearing world is marvellous to see.

So give me a ring on 01347 810325 if you can help and we’ll gladly collect.

Sincere thanks everyone.

Eunice Birch, Coombs Close, Sutton-on-the-Forest, York

 

WITH reference to the lady injured while leaving the train at York Station (The Press, June 25), I had a similar experience.

I like to visit London by train and over the years have got travel-wise.

On March 14 this year, I returned from Kings Cross but, with engineering works, the train was due into York at around 9pm to 10pm, so I knew I was prepared to meet the “away day” drinkers.

The train pulled in and sure enough a gang of about 20 young women with no manners ran to the carriage door, with me trying to get off, coupled with my travel bag.

I can look after myself. With this unruly crowd, I had to elbow my way off.

The thought of sharing a carriage with this mob and paying an excess fare to Sunderland filled me with dread.

It’s the same with racegoers attending York races, leaving the train like a swarm of locusts, ignoring the “keep left” signs on the stairways. It’s like swimming against the tide.

There is a saying in Yorkshire, “there’s nowt so queer as folk”.

Tell you what, mind doctors will have a field day studying the hen parties and racegoers’ behaviour.

Tony Furnandiz, Calf Close, Haxby, York

 

READING Alexander Ogilvy’s letter, “What happened to Lord Mayor’s Parade” (The Press, July 8), brought back happy memories of when I worked for Marks & Spencer who entered a float in the Lord Mayor’s Parade.

The theme for the M&S float was fashion through the ages, and I was lucky enough to wear an outfit which represented a more glamorous era, the 1920s.

We M&S girls had a great fun day, that day on that float.

W P Carter, Marston Crescent, Acomb, York

 

GRATEFUL thanks to emergency doctors and nurses, consultant Stevan Stojkovic and all theatre and staff on Ward 16 for superb care.

I’m sorry I can’t remember more names but thank you Mr Anaesthetist with the cheeky grin for being so careful with my fragile front teeth – my one vanity.

Gillian Harvey, East View, Sutton-on-Forest

 

WHAT rabble does Dave Barker imagine I am trying to rouse? (Letters, July 10).

My letter was a cautionary tale in true Belloc fashion.

We do live in a democracy where all the laws of the past were based on the book Dave Barker despises – from the days of Alfred the Great into the 20th century.

From then onwards, more and more laws are against the morality of the Bible with the consequent decline in personal moral standards and way of life.

Britain lost its empire when we stopped sending out Christian missionaries and started importing them of necessity. Why is the Bible of questionable content and dubious origin?

I suggest that it is Mr Baker’s scholarship that is of dubious origin.

The Bible told us the earth was round long before flat-earth evolutionists even thought about it – notwithstanding the slanders made by those people against the believers in the book since.

As the old song says, “I’m acquainted with the author and I know God’s word is true...”.

Ken Barnes, North View, Catterton, Tadcaster

 

ON Friday, in Petergate, near Cafe Concerto, I had a hypoglycaemic attack, caused by low blood sugar as I am diabetic.

Someone observed my erratic behaviour and took me into the cafe, from which they called an ambulance.

I would like to thank them for their quick thinking and for the kind treatment I was given by staff and persons unknown.

As it was a race day in York, I am particularly grateful my condition was not mistaken for too much alcohol as the symptoms are not dissimilar.

Thanks also to the kind paramedics who took me to A&E.

Austin Saeki, York